Posted on 05/07/2015 8:16:17 PM PDT by Leaning Right
I am blessed. I'm sitting less than 10 yards of where I was born, and within 5 yards of where I'll eventually die (I ain't going anywhere.. This is a good enough place for me.)
I also have a chance of getting to know people. There are surprisingly few officers for a town this size. It's pretty easy for me to remember everyone. And for sure for them to remember me.
I get hit on a couple of times a month for intelligence because I do keep an eye on the neighborhood.
/johnny
So next time there’s a dust-up with guns in a mobile home park, you guys think you’d be better taking the call?
“The article also said that the homeowner is black and the two deputies are white.”
It doesn’t matter whether you are black or purple. If you brandish your weapons on cops, they will mistake you for a bad guy.
I’m not really a “people” person so it works for me and I have never been accused of being intelligent.
;<)
9 minutes into the 911 call, and Law Enforcement still was not there... sheesh...
sometimes even if you don't brandish your weapon... in this case, they said they didn't know which one he was--criminal or homeowner... so i guess they took a chance...
Yes. What's up with that?
Yep, blasted away and went home safe, that is all that matters, right?
To hell with the citizens.
The lesson is that in today’s world, cops actually helping the innocent citizen is, at best, a secondary priority.
If you really drop a gun, it could go off.
If it goes off, what are the odds one or more cops will shoot the person who dropped the gun?
THAT IS OUTDATED F@CKING IDIOT TRAINING.
Put the damn gun down.
Don’t tell people to DROP a f@cking weapon that can fire if dropped.
Mother effing morons. Sorry but I am really pissed off at the idiocy of the supposedly finest trained.
It could have been worse, I suppose. There have been cases where one cop yells "drop the gun" while another cop yells "hands up". That's truly a no-win situation for the citizen.
Dunno. This guy got shot in the neck. He’d probably get shot in your scenario too, so I don’t see a great deal of diff in the end.
But yeah, yours is one where people would be amazed the guy doesn’t get shot because cop a says one thing and cop b says another contradicting a.
Just as long as a and b go home, that’s all that matters now.
“I know the one dry cleaner ...”
I thought he was talking about a ‘take the dead bodies away’ type cleaner.
I have one of those too.
But I am still not going to go meet all of the other ones in the area.
Let's see the home owner had a gun and two people tried to break in and he used the gun to defend his home and they two guys fled. Then the cop shows up and shoots the homeowner.
Sounds like the major mistake was calling the cops.
Read the article. Nowhere does it say he “brandished” his gun in any way. This is the natural BIAS of the READER creeping into the story and it is PREJUDICIAL. He may not have put his gun down when asked by officers, but that shouldn’t automatically qualify him for the death penalty.
I live 50 miles north of ya. I’d shoot shovel and shut up. No call to the popo needed.
I NEVER call the cops.
There is absolutely no situation that the cops can’t make worse.
I don’t have much real estate ergo no back hoe and with my arthritis I ain’t hand digging a hole.
That is why I have a “guy”.
Here in Texas swat’ed up police have shot 5 veterans since January committing no crime other that holding a weapon in their own home behind closed doors.
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